I've been investigating you for so long, only to learn that you already knew me.
I've searched for you for a thousand years. It turns out I didn't come to kill you. I came to ask you for an explanation.
Gu Changyuan, team leader of the Night Patrol's Seventh Unit, has a pair of soul-devouring eyes that can see the final moments of the dead. He fears nothing more than vengeful ghosts and dislikes nothing more than people who pretend to be supernatural.
Until he meets Shen Qingchuan at a case involving a flayed corpse.
An associate professor of history, dressed in white, with a beauty mark beneath his eye. He speaks gently, yet looks at Gu Changyuan as if through a thousand years of snow.
This man keeps turning up at the scenes of Gu Changyuan's investigations. He never hides or avoids him, and always makes him a cup of tea at just the right temperature in the dead of night.
Gu Changyuan senses something is off.
He digs into Shen Qingchuan's past, unearthing an ancient ruler engraved with the words
